Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead poster

Movie · 1991

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

Released 8 February 1991 More from 1991 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. The duo encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet. Meanwhile, they ponder the meaning of their existence.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Ian Richardson
as Polonius
56
Gary Oldman
as Rosencrantz
32
Tim Roth
as Guildenstern
29
Iain Glen
as Hamlet
29
Serge Soric
as Tragedian
29
John Burgess
as Ambassador from England
Unknown
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
27years between the oldest and youngest billed
56Ian Richardson — oldest on the call sheet
29Serge Soric — youngest billed
35average age of the credited cast
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